All ISRP site members and guests are
responsible for knowing the information
contained in the following Code of Conduct.

ISRP reserves the right, but does not
assume the responsibility, to restrict
communication which ISRP deems in its discretion to be harmful to
individual
guests, damaging to the communities which make up ISRP, or in violation
of
ISRP’s or any third-party rights.

"masking" by using
alternative characters/spellings and spaces to get around profanity
filters, leet-speak, and combinations of words that produce an
offensive result (e.g. ura hugeazz, Tow El Head)

"Filter testing" That is,
trying to find a way to get prohibited words past the filters.

Discussion of or
in-character enactments of "cybering" or sexually explicit material.
This means roleplaying having sex, or sexual type encounters of any
sort, to include oral, homosexual, foreplay, etc.

Discussion of or
in-character enactments of graphic violence, bloodletting, rape,
torture, slavery, etc. This means no descriptions of entrails all over,
no lurid descriptions of blood spattering and fountaining all around,
no depictions of rape, or detailed accounts of rape, no torture or
cruelty such as found in slavery situations, no enactments of slavery
or the process of enslaving someone.

·Hate speech (e.g. racial, ethnic,
sexist,
homophobic and religious slurs)This
includes jokes of same sorts. Calling people fags, kikes, micks, carpet
crunchers, what have you is right out.

·Promotion of or engaging in
certain illegal
activities, For example: drugs, drug paraphernalia, rape or
solicitation of
a minor, computer hacking, and copyright violation. Generally, if it’s
illegal,
it isn’t to be done on site. Period.

·Harassment of another
specific person either
IC or OOC. The procedure for this is simple. If someone is harassing
you, tell
them pointedly that you find it bothersome and tell them to stop.
Clearly. Not
implied. If they continue, use the ignore function, that is what it is
for. And
report them to a Moderator. Harassment is not a joke and will be dealt
with
severely. Things like unprovoked attacks, following people around the
site,
posting annoying thought bubbles that irritate, not stopping when asked
to
stop. In Character play DOES NOT obviate this rule.

·Trolling or baiting by
putting to the
screen inflammatory statements designed to elicit a negative response
from the
community. To include posting thought bubbles with statements
calculated to
irritate or offend. This includes things like “this place is boring”,
“these
people are all idiots”, “same cheesy characters”, and other things of
similar
or related type.

·Spamming through repeated posts,
or off-topic
content by word or intent to boards or lists (e.g. scrolling,
flooding,
polling, or by "bumping" a boards post more than once in 48
hours) We usually count scrolling as five or more lines not part of IC
interaction in rapid but not necessarily sequential order. Things like
running
through the emote list, the same emote several times. Also included are
the
wonderful indicators of sleeping, like ZZZZZZZZZ or
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.
Sorry people that’s spam.

·Advertising or promoting a
business or commercial
site. This means any site for commercial or business purposes. The
only
ones who can do this are the site owners or the Moderators at their
direction.
Patrons will not post adverts to other sites, nor promote their
business, nor
any other commercial enterprise.

·Impersonation of another person,
site staff
or ISRP Moderator by either screen name or self-representation (e.g.
faking
a screen name by using similar-looking characters, "spoofing" speech
in a chat room, or claiming to hold an official title or position
relating to
the site) Or pretending to be another player’s character by the same
means.

·Reregistering a banned screen name,
a
variation of a banned name, or declarations under a new screen name
that you
are "really" the banned name or attempts to resubscribe to a e-mail
list under another address after being put on REVIEW by the list
moderator.
(for further explanation, see below) If you re-register a banned name,
or claim
to be a banned character with another name, you *will* be banned again.
So
don’t do it.

·Off-topic posts or casual chat/IC
play in the
wrong chatrooms For example:

out-of-character chat in
designated in-character rooms

casual chat or non-combat
play in designated combat-only rooms, or, conversely, combat play in
non-combat rooms

at Magi discretion,
off-topic chat or posts in topic-specific rooms/forums

ROOM
DISRUPTION

Room disruption is any
activity that
disrupts either the flow of the play in any give room, or flagrantly
violates
the setting rules of any room, or both. That’s the simple definition.
It’s a
hard thing to define tightly and judgment on the part of hosts will
always be a
factor. However, it includes everything already posted to this point,
as well
as any sort of modern everyday talk, netspeak, leetspeak, phonetic
speech, and
so on are disruptive. Fantasy language use is NOT disruptive. Using
parentheses
around words denotes them as Out Of Character by convention, so don’t
use them,
they are disruptive. Typing in all caps is disruptive. Doing things
that force
others to react to them if they wish to remain In Character is
disruptive. You
may not make the Tavern shake, break the walls or doors down, shoot
fireballs
and lightning bolts around the rooms, gun down everyone in TMP, throw
in hand
grenades, etc. These are all disruptive behaviors. Brawls in the rooms
are
disruptive. Throwing knives at one another, being a Dragon in the
Tavern, a log
of cheese, or what have you. Again, these are disruptive. Characters
that are
anathema to a given setting are disruptive. They don’t belong in the In
Character chats that are setting defined to exclude them. Nor may
people use
perceived ‘loopholes’ to try to avoid these things.

Settings will have
their own subsection of
rules which will more closely define what is and isn’t
disruptive/acceptable
within them. If an activity violates these rules, then they are
disruptive in
that particular setting. It is the responsibility of the players to
know the
rules of the places they are going to, and by signing up to play on
this chat
site, you have asserted that you have indeed read and understand these
rules.
You will be held to that.

Finally; In
Character play never
justifies breaking the Code of Conduct. The Code of Conduct always
takes precedence over a
character’s nature, concept, alignment, what have you. Ignorance is
never an
excuse.

FREEDOM OF
DESTINY

No
one can force your character to do anything you do not want them to do.
You do
not have to die, be blown up, be subject to a spell, etc. By the same
token,
neither can you force anyone else. You may ask. This does not mean
anyone is
free to break the CoC because their character would do so. See the
above noted
statement in this regard.

MODERATOR
JUDGEMENT

By
the very nature of what we play at, and what the Moderators have to do,
things
simply can’t be completely defined. As a result, Moderators will have
to
exercise their judgment, and in fact are required to do so. It is their
judgment that is used in determining if someone has violated these
rules. You
may ask for an explanation, explain your case, and even go to a higher
Moderator, if you disagree with this judgment. But when it is made on
the spot,
you must abide by it until a ruling is made in a dispute. Logs of the
chatrooms
will be used to ascertain what exactly happened. You will be notified
of final
judgment in any disputed case. Remember, by signing on to play here,
you have
certified that you have read and understand these rules, and agreed to
abide by
them. Ignorance is not an excuse.

In other words, behave yourself. Treat
other people you encounter in the
rooms just as you would like to be treated…...politely.

Disciplinary Procedures

If a member of the ISRP Community has
demonstrated he or she cannot behave,
the member WILL LOSE ALL of his or her usernames registered at
that
time. This prevents a user with multiple screen names from misbehaving
with one
“throw away” screen name while preserving another “good” screen name.
You have
three strikes. Your agreement in having read and understood these rules
can be
used as your first one. Upon the third you will lose all your currently
subbed
Screen Names. A total of six warnings, to include the aforementioned
loss of of
all Screen Names results in being banned from the site entirely. You
may
petition for a review after six months if this happens.

At the point of screen name loss, the
patron may register a new name(s) with
the stipulation that it not be a look-alike, variation of, or reference
to the
lost name. Doing so—or further violations of the CoC—will only result
in all
screen names being lost again and the patron being barred from website
community access altogether. For example, if a user with the name
BadDwarf
loses his name for CoC infractions, registering BadDwarf2, B@dDwarf, or
FormerBadDwarf would not be allowed. The user must create a new name
altogether.

Violations of a specific Setting’s
additional rules generally are treated in
the same manner as violations of the Code of Conduct. See the list's
Welcome
Letter or FAQ if you have questions on how those types of violations
are
handled.

These procedures are only meant to be
rough guidelines, as each situation is
different and may require other measures to ensure the smooth operation
of the
site. Situations that often require harsher action are: very full rooms
where
Magi moderator-to-patron ratio is low, out-of-hand flame wars, and
flagrant
and/or intentional disregard for the CoC.

You Can Make the ISRP Community a Better Place

Our moderators can't be everywhere at
once. Therefore, if you witness
actions in chat or boards that you believe harms a guest, damages the
ISRP
Community, or violates ISRP’s or some third-party's rights, please make
a note
of the time/place where the event occurred and contact a Magi
immediately. If
they aren't handy, please see our community contact page.